Yes it is WCS points. I've gone through the whole process myself with our team. The situation is that if a player declines at first, they move down the list and if they accept, the spot is obviously theirs. If the player who declined earlier comes back and wants to play anyway, he will receive the spot that's available.

Example is that we declined TLO at first to the event and they went down the WCS pts list. We came back some time later and said ok, we would actually like to do him anyway. By that time Grubby and DIMAGA had been offered the slots, so we had to wait until they decided whether or not they wanted in. When they didn't want in, we got the slot back since Dario was the highest ranked WCS player that wanted to play the tournament at that given time.

SinCitta

Germany2127 Posts

September 29 2013 11:50 GMT

#104

Love that IEM gets the most shit of any tournament for supposedly invites even though they had the most open system of all the premier tournaments since the beginning of SC2.

cookiz

Burma181 Posts

September 29 2013 14:08 GMT

#105

Owwww this should be so much fun

las91

United States5080 Posts

September 29 2013 14:19 GMT

#106

Just thinking about all the signatures I'll be hopefully getting.... better remember to bring my mousepad.

Pandemona

Charlie Sheens House51493 Posts

September 29 2013 15:48 GMT

#107

DeMuslim
FLASH
amg im there :D
Woop IEM NY <3

MrMotionPicture

United States4327 Posts

September 29 2013 20:12 GMT

#108

Not many Terrans. Sad day!
But it looks like it will be a good event!

Baroninthetree

United States473 Posts

September 29 2013 20:32 GMT

#109

Where is taeja?

AtlasEndured

United States60 Posts

September 29 2013 23:10 GMT

#110

To everyone asking about Innovation, he played in the Asian qualifier where he was beaten by both Zest and Curious, thusly not qualifying

althaz

Australia1001 Posts

September 30 2013 01:08 GMT

#111

On September 30 2013 05:32 Baroninthetree wrote:
Where is taeja?

At home lying on his bed of money.

True story.

Pretty pumped for this tournament! Huk fighting!

SorrowShine

698 Posts

September 30 2013 04:10 GMT

#112

On September 29 2013 03:13 Abominous wrote:
Not gonna lie, was hoping for Jaedong

Same here

Zerg.Zilla

Hungary5029 Posts

September 30 2013 04:49 GMT

#113

Zest,Flash awww yeahh!

goody153

44237 Posts

September 30 2013 05:22 GMT

#114

flash win the whole damn thing ! if not .. then naniwa win the whole damn thing ! if not then DRG the dong of zvt win the whole damn thing

DJ_sc2

Sweden105 Posts

September 30 2013 12:06 GMT

#115

I hope NaNiwa will get a good result at New York. Would be nice to see him at Blizzcon

Lorch

Germany3690 Posts

September 30 2013 13:05 GMT

#116

dat lineup! First IEM in a very long time that I'm actually excited for. Hope the times are ok for Europe, I barely caught anything of the last IEM.

Daswollvieh

5553 Posts

September 30 2013 13:55 GMT

#117

Go San!

And then there´s always this little tiny miniscule belief, which like atomic decay only gets smaller without ever vanishing, that this could be Demuslim´s break-out tournament.

Burns

United States2300 Posts

September 30 2013 16:55 GMT

#118

No illusion, I miss watching him play with his aggressive style and early rushes.

He is fun to watch

movac

Canada494 Posts

September 30 2013 18:38 GMT

#119

For a lot of the players the WCS points doesn't even matter. For many even if they win the whole thing, it won't permit get them enough for WCS since they're out of out of WCS and can't go over 3000 points. For players like sOs, HerO and Polt, they've already got enough points. The few players for whom the points do matter are NaNiwa, StarDust, Hyun and maybe TLO if he wins the whole thing (and get 100 points for finishing the bracket to get into Premier) and if 2925 points is enough to place top 16.

If the wild card invites goes in the order of WCS points, I'm actually surprised it went all the way down to Flash at the 40th spot. It would make sense for MC and Hyun to go to help give them greater assurance that they'd have enough points for BlizzCon. TeaJa would have made sense too since both him and HerO are going to be in the USA anyways for WCS America and help them be used to the time zone in advance.

Wubbles

United States120 Posts

September 30 2013 19:00 GMT

#120

Really hope I can get my keyboard signed by Flash.